Note 2 — THE LIFE OF ROBIN HOOD.

(2) —“was born at Locksley, in the county of Nottingham.”] “Robin Hood,” says a MS. in the British Museum (Bib. Sloan. 715), written, as it seems, toward the end of the sixteenth century, “was borne at Lockesley in Yorkshyre, or after others in Not­ting­ham­shire.” The writer here labours under manifest ignorance and confusion, but the first row of the rubric will set him right: